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Guidance for Intelligent Route Optimization on AWS

Reduce fuel costs and improve logistics operations with a route optimization tool

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Overview

This Guidance provides a fleet planning tool for route optimization and tracking, helping you optimize orders, reduce costs, and improve your fleet and delivery operations. It is a cloud-based solution that combines historical data, such as traffic, routes, and customer data, with location services, such as route planning, near real-time tracking, geocoding, and analytics. It helps you better manage the distinct categories of deliveries (discrete, non-discrete, and instant deliveries), with a flexible tool to handle multiple vehicle types (such as trucks, scooters, and bikes). A web-based dispatcher interface for planning and monitoring, with a mobile driver application for navigation and proof of delivery, is also implemented with this Guidance. 

How it works

These technical details feature an architecture diagram to illustrate how to effectively use this solution. The architecture diagram shows the key components and their interactions, providing an overview of the architecture's structure and functionality step-by-step.

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Well-Architected Pillars

The architecture diagram above is an example of a Solution created with Well-Architected best practices in mind. To be fully Well-Architected, you should follow as many Well-Architected best practices as possible.

This Guidance can be deployed using the Amplify command line interface (CLI). This means that all infrastructure components are expressed as infrastructure as code (IaC) so you can easily deploy changes and adapt this to enhance your operational excellence. Additionally, all of the Lambda functions in this Guidance are instrumented to emit JSON structured logs through the usage of AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript. This allows operators to aggregate and query logs, as well as extract metrics and set alarms.

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The backend of this Guidance has two entry points: an AWS AppSync API and an AWS IoT Core endpoint. The first leverages an Amazon Cognito user Pools where you can create groups that users belong to. The AWS IoT Core endpoint instead uses X.509 client certificates that are issued and managed by AWS IoT Core. Finally, the frontend application also uses Cognito, both for storing users (user pool), and for obtaining temporary credentials (identity pool).

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This Guidance uses AWS managed services for all of its public endpoints (AWS AppSync and AWS IoT Core), which allows the Guidance to be highly available. You can also deploy the frontend with both AWS Amplify Hosting or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) coupled with Amazon CloudFront, both of which will make it globally distributed and highly available.

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AWS IoT Core, AWS AppSync, Lambda, and Amazon Location are purpose-built services for this Guidance that enhance your performance efficiency. AWS IoT Core is a managed service that accepts connections from IoT devices, using industry standards for authentication (TLS) and connection protocols (MQTT). AWS AppSync was chosen as a managed service that allows you to expose APIs to web and mobile applications and allows you to request only the right amount of data (using GraphQL). Lambda was chosen because of its serverless and managed nature, that allows it to scale up and down based on traffic. Finally, Amazon Location was chosen as a secure and cost-effective mean to access location-based data from multiple vetted providers. This Guidance can be deployed in any of the AWS commercial Regions where these services are supported.

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This Guidance uses pay-as-you-go billing for all services, and scales to continually match your demand with only the minimum resources required. You can also opt into Compute Saving Plans to materialize cost savings on Lambda, which is used extensively throughout this Guidance. 

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This Guidance uses event-driven processing that relies on ephemeral compute environments (Lambda) and managed services for the entry points (AWS AppSync and AWS IoT Core), allowing this Guidance to be elastic and scale in function of the load. Managed services shift responsibility for maintaining high-average utilization, and sustainability optimization of the deployed hardware from you to AWS. 

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Implementation resources

The sample code is a starting point. It is industry validated, prescriptive but not definitive, and a peek under the hood to help you begin.
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